ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL: and Other Poems.
Amherst, MA: Rat & Mole Press, (1973). First edition. Gray stapled paperwraps lettered in black on front, Near fine. Item #51288 More
Amherst, MA: Rat & Mole Press, (1973). First edition. Gray stapled paperwraps lettered in black on front, Near fine. Item #51288 More
Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, (1936). First edition. Recipes compiled by Cerwin; illustrations by Whitman. Recipes includes "Poetic License" from Jeffers (onions baked in cream of mushroom soup); "Something to Remember" from Sherwood Anderson (cured ham simmered in milk); "Tortilla Flat" from Steinbeck (vinegar soaked beef in tomato sauce..... Item #55583 More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967). First edition. A high-school dropout's inaugural acid trip leads to an accusation of murder. A trippy mystery / cautionary tale for young adults by the detective and sci-fi pulp fiction writer. 8vo gray paper boards stamped in blue; 126 pages. Near fine in..... Item #50254 More
New York: Villard Books, 1995. First edition. Basis for the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. SIGNED WITH A QUOTE from the book, " 'The empty Sundays of his life...'/ Michael Chabon/ 2002." Advance reading copy in white paperwraps printed in black. Slight tanning to pages otherwise fine. SIGNED..... Item #46672 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincot Co., [1936]. First U.S. edition from English sheets. Englishmen look back over their lives and remember field sports and games. Edited by Chalmers. Fine in dust jacket with spine darkened and minor wear on corners and spine ends. Item #42232 More
New York: Picador, 1998. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Review copy with slip and photo of author laid in. Item #38013 More
New York: Caxton House, Inc., 1939. First edition. He's been dead a year but his prints are all over the weapon. Page edges age-tanned otherwise bright and near fine in price-clipped, very good or better dust jacket with shadow from old tape repair to base of rear panel. Item #54757 More
London: T. C. Newby, (1845). First edition. Published anonymously in 20 monthly parts issued from January 1844 to July 1845. Bound from the original monthly parts with title page dated 1845 added. Cover of Part IV, June 1844, bound in at front; illustrated with frontispiece and 39 engraved plates by..... Item #54123 More
ChandlerR.pdf. Item #22755 More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, (1973). First edition. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Foreword by Jacques Barzun. Number 211 of a limited first printing of 499 copies of which the first 400 were for sale. Gilt-stamped red-leatherette backed off-white "marbled" paper boards; top edge red; ribbon place marker. In..... Item #53937 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. First book appearances of eight stories written by Chandler in the 1930's for pulp magazines. Introduction by Philip Durham. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with edges rubbed and few tiny nicks and tears..... Item #53932 More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [circa 1947]. First edition thus, a photoplay edition with scenes from the 1947 movie starring Robert Montgomery on jacket panels and flaps. Crease to front cover of book (board bent then straightened) otherwise would be very good or better with bookplate on front endpaper, in..... Item #53177 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First U.S. edition, preceded by the UK edition. Pin prick to front gutter otherwise crisp and near fine in about very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow rubbed chipping to spine ends and corners and two old tape repairs on verso. Item #53931 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). First UK edition, preceding the 1954 U.S. edition. Faint stain to page fore edges otherwise crisp and fine in good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with some flattened creasing and chips at spine tips taking out first and last letters of "Raymond" and at base of spine..... Item #53935 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958). First edition, preceding the U.S. edition. First issue boards stamped in silver versus yellow. The final (complete) Philip Marlowe. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends, tips and folds. Bottom half rear flap clipped out, good only thus. Item #53943 More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1946). First edition. Collects five stories. Pages considerably darkened and brittle corners chipped at bottom of pp. 73/4 and 75/6 otherwise very good in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends. Item #53929 More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1977). First U.K. edition. "....early versions of descriptions, ideas, and anecdotes ... [and] ... collections of pickpocket lingo and jailhouse slang" as well as essays and a short story, "The English Summer," which is illustrated by Gorey. 8vo gilt-stamped dark red textured paper boards; 113 pages;..... Item #72102 More
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First edition. His first book. INSCRIBED on half-title page, "Best of luck from Fred & Sue Chappell to Peggy & Hugh Kerner. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with internal tape repair to head of spine where there are a few short rubbed..... Item #56123 More
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, (1969). First edition. Near fine with previous owner's gift inscription on front endpaper; in very good to near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and minor edge wear. Item #51694 More
CharterisL.pdf. Item #22756 More
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dust jacket with very minor edge rubbing and a few barely noticeable imperfections in finish (production error). Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Item #33923 More
Kyffin Williams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. First U.S. edition. Illustrated by Kyffin Williams. SIGNED BY PAUL THEROUX at the National Book Festival in 2008, with event cards laid in. Faint foxing to page top edges, still fine in dust jacket. Item #49065 More
ChatwinB.pdf. Item #22757 More
(London): Colophon Press, 1993. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies, this copy being letter "W." A story, from a single, partially revised draft, found amongst the author's papers after his death. There were also 175 numbered copies. Fine, as issued, without dust jacket. Item #33175 More
Chicago: Covici Friede, 1930. First edition thus: illustrated by Kent and translated by Van Wyck. THE DELUXE EDITION. Number 28 of only 75 copies SIGNED BY KENT at end of second volume and with an extra suite of FIVE SEPARATE 5-PANEL PLATES, EACH ONE SIGNED BY KENT. Two folio-sized full-leather..... Item #71650 More